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Robotics, augmented reality, virtual worlds, to support cognitive development, learning outcomes, social interaction, and inclusion
Get PDFRobotica, realtà aumentata, mondi virtuali, per supportare lo sviluppo cognitivo, gli apprendimenti, l’interazione sociale, l’inclusion
Teaching a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship through problem based learning
Get PDFThis article presents a case study of a university course taught through problem based learning, which aimed to nurture a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. In Fall 2018, 42 student social educators participated in a course on Methods of Group Work. A social entrepreneur launched a challenge concerning his activity, and the students in groups had three weeks to solve it and deliver a final presentation. The research design made use of mixed methods approach to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Although improvements will be necessary in a future delivery and in the pre/post questionnaire, results suggest that course was important to prepare students for their career in a lifelong learning perspective. L’educazione a un senso d’iniziativa e d’imprenditorialità attraverso il problem based learningQuesto contributo illustra un corso universitario insegnato attraverso il problem based learning per educare a un senso d’iniziativa e d’imprenditorialità. A ottobre 2018 42 studenti iscritti a un corso di laurea per educatore sociale hanno partecipato al corso “Metodologie del lavoro di gruppo”. Un imprenditore sociale ha lanciato una sfida riguardante la sua attività, e gli studenti hanno lavorato in gruppo per tre settimane e presentato le loro soluzioni. Il disegno della ricerca ha utilizzato mixed methods per raccogliere dati qualitativi e quantitativi con questionari pre e post corso, valutazioni finali da parte degli studenti, le risposte a una domanda aperta su come migliorare il corso, e commenti da parte di osservatori privilegiati. Benché nella prossima edizione del corso saranno necessarie alcune migliorie – sia per la parte pedagogica che per quella di raccolta dei dati – i risultati suggeriscono che il corso abbia permesso di preparare gli studenti per la loro futura professione in una prospettiva di apprendimento permanente
Microvariation and Microparameters. Some Quantitative Remarks
Get PDFThis paper deals with the distribution of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. Building on quantitative data, I argue that the observed microvariation cannot derive (only) from external linguistic factors such as contact, areal diffusion, sociolinguistic dynamics, etc. Rather, a principled feature-based analysis is needed in order to account for certain patterns of defectivity and syncretism that, although typologically rare, occur systematically in northern dialects
The Italian-English “Cocktail” on Italian Social Networks
Get PDFThe article deals with anglicisms (integral or partially adapted) in the language of social network users in Italy. Such anglicisms are divided into computer technicalities, pseudotechnicisms linked to the various social networking platforms, luxury loans and terms that lie somewhere between technicality and jargon; the motivation to their use goes from a real necessity to the reinforcement of a sense of belonging to a community, when not simply to give greater expressivity to the text. Some examples taken from social networks of the ongoing debate on anglicisms are analyzed and, in conclusion, the topic of the general distrust of Italians for anglicisms is discussed
L’ep. 81 di Seneca e la postilla al De beneficiis
Get PDFIn his letter 81 to Lucilius, obviously written after the De beneficiis had been completed, Seneca intends to treat more thoroughly a problem which, as he says, had not been sufficiently clarified in the treatise: namely, whether the debt of gratitude is nullified if a former benefactor offends us. In the treatise Seneca maintains that it is impossible for common people to assess the relative import of benefit received and offence endured; only the sage is able to do so. In the letter it is assessed by three distinct figures: a rigidus iudex, the closest to the ideal sage, in that he is able to judge correctly; a vir bonus, who assumes he can do so, but cheats himself in favor of the offender to avoid mistakes in the opposite direction; and Seneca’s model, a remissior iudex, who from the beginning ascribes more weight to the benefit than to the offence. Though there is no basic doctrinal difference between the treatise and the letter, in this the uncompromising severity of Stoicism is mitigated
Les frontières entre réel et imaginaire à l’épreuve des promenades sonores in situ (Soundwalks)
Get PDFThis article examines the particular aesthetic experience brought about by soundwalks. In each case, the point of departure is the phenomenological analysis of two case study: Janet Cardiff’s Walks and the audio-tours Remote x by Rimini Protokoll. Drawing upon Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, I will examine the conflicts of perception and the peculiar shift from one order of perception to another that punctuate the spectator’s walking, as well as the intertwining of the real and the imaginary coming into being in such performances and experienced at the very level of his bodily inscription in space. More specifically, my aim is to address the challenge that the aesthetic experience here in question sets to Husserl’s phenomenology of perception and to show how the extension of the notion of perception achieved by Merleau-Ponty makes it possible to overcome the paradox
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 511-512
Get PDFIn Aesch. Agam. 512, an emendation by M. L. West is supported by a new consideration involving the idiom in which a deity is requested to be sated with former infliction of harm and adopt a more benign attitude
Coming Home: Lesbian Poetics and Homelessness
Get PDFAs a poet of the Irish diaspora, Cherry Smyth queers the environment of her construction (Northern Ireland) by examining the experiences and perceptions of her non-heteronormative orientation when she returns home from London. Smyth delves into memory, nostalgia, forgetting and remembering to articulate her search for a home. This can be read most vividly in her poem “Coming Home”. The visibility of lesbian poets has been historically displaced, silenced and eradicated by the patriarchal domination of lyric poetry, often leaving lesbian poets homeless in the tradition. Rather than ever arriving at home, Smyth is continually coming home and this coming is painful, shameful and erotic all at once and thereby makes a home out of being queer. These, and other issues, are discussed using an auto-theoretical queer approach
The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan for Torroella de Montgrí, Girona, Spain
Get PDFThe Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) for Torroella de Montgrí — Pla Estratègic Municipal de Mobilitat Sostenible — is a strategic planning document that proposes a territorial and urban project for the municipality. Its goal is to guide the transition process of a car-oriented territory towards a inclusive model based on the improvement of the accessibility, the respect for the environment and the collective well-being.The shape of the territory is in the centre of the proposed projects, which support the idea of a polycentric and open territory where the empty space becomes a fundamental project figure, acquiring a primary role in relation to the constructed space. The hypothesis supported by the SUMP is that it is possible to reduce the external costs of the current territorial model based on private car use with a collective project on mobility spaces